From a Canadian standpoint anyone could say this was the greatest hockey season no matter what team you cheer for. We won the gold medal in extremely dramatic fashion on home ice, it really doesn’t get much bigger. Standing in line at the Railway club at 9am for 2 hours, partying on Granville after the game and celebrating with a victory poutine was something that will not happen again in my lifetime.

A Philly-Chicago Finals was the series I hoped would happen at the beginning of the playoffs. Both are teams I like to watch and play a pretty entertaining style. Their rowdy barns and crazy fans would be quite the experience.

I wish I had my own show like Don Cherry because this is the part where I would go back to an episode a few years ago and tell you all to watch what this smart, good-lookin guy is going to say. Then it would play the clip where I am telling everyone that Winnipeg will have an NHL team back within the next 5 years. It might still be a year or 2 but the fact is an option for the failing project, the Phoenix Coyotes, and many other owners are looking to sell their clubs, it is starting to look realistic.

The playoffs are still on but I am already looking forward to next season. With the Draft and free agents the season never really ends.

Space Scene from Matthew Simon on Vimeo.

This is another scene from the sci-fi novel, book trailer I worked on called, “Post-human”, by David Simpson. This scene he just wanted the guy taking off from the street into space, then flying across the galaxy. I have done an earth zoom shot before, so recreating that was pretty simple. To the guy I added a green glow, made with Shine, and animated the expansion of the mask to make it flicker a bit. For the space shot, I added a fractal noise layer to give the sun the “heat” effect and then I pulled back the camera and animated a lens flare.

Swarm Scene 2 from Matthew Simon on Vimeo.

This is another shot I did for the sci-fi book trailer, “Post-human”. by David Simpson. This shot he wanted the tiny little “nans”(particles) to swarm the city. I just layered a bunch of these particles and added a layer of green glowing ones to represent thew people in the city. I used motion sketch to give the feel of a hand held camera.

Force Field Ignition from Matthew Simon on Vimeo.

I recently worked on a book trailer for the sci-fi book called “Post-human”, by David Simpson. I was asked to create a few scenes from it. This one is a green “force-field” glow that ignites when the guy snaps his hand back. I played a lot with fractal noise, and turbulent displace to get the smokey effect. Added a glow to it and then the lens flare to the final comp, which faded the green colour to a yellowish hue which I think really took away the “cheeziness” of it.

Michele/Tyler Wedding from Matthew Simon on Vimeo.

This is the wedding video I made for my sisters wedding this summer to my best friend. As you can imagine, I was not too impressed with my best friend dating my sister at first, but that was probably to be expected. She has never been happier and now I have my drinking buddy at every family function, which is pretty sweet. Anyways I made this to basically show how they grew up and how they met each other, which I guess could be considered my doing.

The Bachelor Party from Matthew Simon on Vimeo.

I went to my buddy’s bachelor party in Kelowna this last weekend, and we shot some video of us drinking and us playing golf. The only reason we didn’t have more footage is because you can’t take cameras into the bars which is where we were the rest of the time. I cut the edits to the song by Guns and Roses, “Ain’t it Fun”. My camera is a 5 year old MiniDV so the quality is pretty low, but for an older look it kind of works.

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